The European Commission have launched a formal investigation into the search-engine super power. The investigation comes after many different complaints from other search engines, believing that Google is abusing their dominant position. Two of the search engine that filed the complaint; Foundem and ejustice.fr., believe that Google has been treating their search service providers unfavorably, with many of Google’s services being placed preferentially. Google denies any of the accusations, but wants to work with the Commission in order to fix any sort of problem that may have arose. Google offers two types of search results. The first one are unpaid results produced by the firm’s algorithms that are displayed on Google’s main page. The other result comes in the form of an “ad”. This investigation will try to determine whether Google’s method of generating unpaid results adversely affects the ranking of other firms. This is not the only accusation Google faces, as the Commission will also look into allegations that Google manipulated elements of its system that determine the price paid for ads from these sites. The investigation will be underway for the next few months, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11876443.
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